Crisi dei missili di Cuba
La crisi dei missili di Cuba fu uno stato di grave tensione politica e diplomatica tra gli Stati Uniti e l’Unione Sovietica nell’ottobre 1962 per la presenza a Cuba di missili sovietici con testate nucleari. Arthur Schlesinger, storico ed ex assistente di Kennedy, la definì “la crisi più pericolosa della storia umana”1.
Thomas Blanton, William Burr & Svetlana Savranskaya (2012) The underwater Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet submarines and the risk of nuclear war, The National Security Archive, 24 di ottobre.
James G. Blight & Janet M. Lang (2012) The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Laurence Chang & Peter Kornbluh (a c. di) (1992) Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Documents Reader, New York: The New Press.
Daniel Ellsberg (2017) The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, New York: Bloomsbury, chap. 13.
Gregory S. Kavka (1986) Morality and nuclear politics: lessons from the missile crisis, in Avner Cohen & Steven Lee (a c. di), Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity: The Fundamental Questions, Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, pp. 233–254.
Robert S. McNamara (1992) One minute to doomsday, The New York Times, 14 di ottobre.
Martin J. Sherwin (2020) Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
E. Timothy Smith (2010) Cuban Missile Crisis, in Nigel Young (a c. di), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 518–521.
Svetlana Savranskaya (2005) New sources on the role of Soviet submarines in the cuban missile crisis, Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 28, pp. 233–259.